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Boston Globe Website Advances UMaine Basketmakers Sale

The Boston Globe website Boston.com carried an article advancing the Maine Indian Basketmakers Sale and Demonstration from 9 a.m.–3 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 8 at the University of Maine Hudson Museum in the Collins Center for the Arts. Contact: George Manlove, 207.581.3756

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Deaths of Former UMaine Football Player, Girlfriend Widely Reported

The shooting deaths of Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, a former University of Maine football player, and his girlfriend Kasandra Perkins in Kansas City, Mo., was widely reported nationally and internationally over the weekend. Authorities said Belcher, 25, killed his girlfriend and then himself. Among the organizations reporting the story were Reuters news service, […]

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Continued Coverage of UMaine Lobster Symposium

News organizations, including the Bangor Daily News, Mainebiz and Channel 5 (WABI) continued coverage this week of the conference “The American Lobster in a Changing Ecosystem: A U.S.-Canada Science Symposium,” hosted in Portland by Maine Sea Grant at the University of Maine and co-chaired by UMaine research associate professor Rick Wahle in the UMaine School […]

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Annual UMaine Bookstore Ornaments Available

The University Bookstore at UMaine has selected the Orono Student Nurses’ Association (OSNA) as the 2012 recipient of proceeds from the annual commemorative holiday ornament sale. OSNA is a pre-professional organization for nursing students at UMaine that offers a strong mentorship program essential in the progression from a student to a professional nurse, according to […]

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National Food Writer to Speak on Decline of the Tomato

Author and award-winning national food writer Barry Estabrook will give a free public presentation on how modern industrial agriculture “has ruined the tomato in all ways — gastronomic, environmental and in terms of labor abuse” at 2:15 p.m., Friday, Dec. 7, in 100 Corbett Business Building. The talk is part of the seminar series of […]

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